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Vinnie laughs and shakes his head at Melanie "A few notes on a piece of paper from a whore won’t stand up in a court of law Nice try, Kitten You have no solid proof that I had thoseIOUs"

If I was sht now as fast as I can Screw Andy

"You just gave us all the proof we need Tell hie" Melanie nods her head in my direction with a confident smile

Yep, should have run

Vinnie whips his head around tome This look is all about murder

Dammit, Melanie!

I should have told Matt how I felt about hiood-bye I wish I had called h she’s a pain in my ass Before I have time to react, Vinnie’s fist shoots out and connects with round and I land hard on my elbow Pain shoots up my arun discharging echoes through the church and I flinch frohter one ood-for-nothing!"

It looks like the Virgin Mary really is answering ain wasn’t the best one for her to start with

CHAPTER 21

Looking up froround, I see iant revolver held steady in her hand as she points it right at Vinnie after her warning shot into the ceiling

Oh, ht now

"MOM! What are you doing? Get the hell out of here!"

My warning falls on deaf ears as she confidently walks farther into the church, her gun held high

"It’s okay I’ve got it all under control," she tells lance over at Giovanni He’s frantically un back and forth betweenon

Join the club

"Are you insane?! You can’t take out a Mob boss by yourself!"

Vinnie laughs and slides his hands in the pockets of his suit and walks toward round quickly and try to stop him

"Please She doesn’t know any better Leave e I think it’s sweet yourtoday, Mrs McCarty?" Vinnie asks her with a pleasant smile

My un so it’s ais "It’s MISS McCarty, you old coot"

A shot rings out and the sound is deafening in the large, eh-pitched screaround

I stare in shock at Vinnie sobbing and writhing in pain on the floor, blood pouring out between his fingers

"Oh, my God You shot hiinary sun barrel like they did in Wild West shows "I was aionna need soe"

Our attentionout on the floor to a coot about Melanie and Giovanni He ot shot, and Melanie was able to get in a good punch to his face His lip is bleeding and he’s cursing and shouting at Melanie as she kicks him repeatedly in the shins, her hands wrapped around his ar

I don’t like her, but I can’t just stand here and do nothing I’ over to Melanie’s side, I jurab onto chunks of his hair with both hands and pull as hard as I can Giovanni iout of the church

Giovanni’s elbow connects with o of his hair His elbow jerks back again and hits the saround and land right on s, and Giovanni uses my momentary pause to catch ht in the stomach

I’m doubled over in pain when I hear a loud, banshee-like shout from behind him I look up just in time to see my mother’s two friends Fran and Eunice hobble up to Giovanni and start beating the shit out of him with their purses

"YOU SCOUNDREL! HOW DARE YOU HURT PAIGE!" Eunice shouts angrily as her black leather purse connects with Giovanni’s face

"YOU’RE THE ONE WHO STOLE THE COMMUNION HOSTS FROM SAINT MICHAEL’S!" Fran adds, hitting Giovanni in the sto up from the floor, I watch in awe as Giovanni cowers from their purse-and-cane assault with his hands over his head

"STOP HITTING ME! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Giovanni screaht in theman!" Fran bops him on the head with her cane

The front doors to the church burst open then, and twenty e into the roouns aimed

"GUNS DOWN! HANDS IN THE AIR!"

I automatically put my hands up so they don’t shoot me by accident, but Fran and Eunice don’t stop; they’re too busy teaching Giovanni a lesson, connecting with every single body part of his they can reach

The ry-old-lady chaos, not quite sure where to aiun away and it slides across the floor

"I surrender! I surrender! Just get these crazy bitches away from me!" he yells

"Yours her purse around and it smacks into his eye

"Ladies! Please put the purses down!" Ted orders

"Do I have to puta criminal in place over here," my mother shouts from Vinnie’s side

"Oh, my God," Ted round"

My mother raises her eyebrow at hiuy who called her ‘Mrs McCarty,’" I warn hi her gun into her purse and walking over to us Several officers surround Vinnie, slapping cuffs on him, while one calls in an aet a handle on Eunice and Fran and convince the their purses and take a step back, straightening their short, gray per enough to get here I called 911 an hour ago and told the the communion hosts from Saint Michael’s," my mother complains to Ted

"Mom, what in the world would possess you to co?"

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